About Astronomy Picture of the Day

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• Australia: http://www.quicksolve.com.au/apod/, maintained by Ron Bell
  
• Brazil (in Portuguese from the Ciênciaonline Institute of Education and Culture): http://www.cienciaonline.org/nasa/apod/, maintained by Eduardo Benevides
  
• Bulgaria (in Bulgarian from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences): http://www.astro.bas.bg/~astropic/, maintained by Vladimir Georgiev
  
• Czech Republic (in Czech): http://www.astro.cz/apod/, maintained by Josef Chlachula
  
• France (in French from Ciel des Hommes): http://www.cidehom.com/apod.php3, maintained by Laurent Laveder
  
• Israel (in Hebrew from Jordan Valley College, Blossoms of Science): http://www.yarden.ac.il/bloss/apod/ap_today.htm, maintained by Shaul Yannai
  
• Italy (in English from Observatorio Astronomico di Brera): http://www.brera.mi.astro.it/apod/, maintained by Chiara Giorgieri
  
• Japan (in Japanese and English): http://home.u05.itscom.net/apodjpn/apodj/apodj0.htm, maintained by Aiichirou Niwa
• New Zealand: http://www.usenet.net.nz/apod/, maintained by Simon Lyall
  
• Poland (translated to Polish within a few days by the Polish Astronomical Society): http://orion.pta.edu.pl/apodmain/apod/ maintained by Tomasz Kundera
  
• Russia (in English from Moscow University): http://www.sai.msu.su/apod/ maintained by Oleg Bartunov
  
• Spain (in Catalan): http://www.ishango.org/apod/apod.htm maintained by Joan Gironès Pau (member of l'Agrupació Astronòmica de Sabadell
  
• Taiwan (in Chinese): http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod/apod.html,
  and (in English): http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod_e/apod.html maintained by Han-Tzong Su
  
• United Kingdom (University College London): http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/astropix.html, maintained by Ian Howarth
  

These addresses will bring you the most recent available Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD). In Netscape, click on "Bookmarks", then "Add Bookmark." If the date displayed is anything other than today's date, hit "Reload", SHIFT "Reload", or "Refresh" on your browser. To see past APODs, click on "Archive" near the bottom of each page. To navigate to the previous day's picture, click on the less than [ < ] symbol near the bottom left of each page. If it is available, you can also navigate to the next day's picture by clicking on the greater than [ > ] symbol near the bottom right of each page.

Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is originated, written, coordinated, and edited in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 by Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell. The APOD archive contains the largest collection of annotated astronomical images on the internet.

In real life, Bob and Jerry are two professional astronomers who spend most of their time researching the universe. Bob is an associate professor at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan, USA, while Jerry is a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland USA. They are two married, mild, and lazy guys who might otherwise appear normal to an unsuspecting guest. Together, they have found new and unusual ways of annoying their wives such as staging astronomical debates. Most people are surprised to learn that they have developed the perfect random number generator.

The above APOD Banner Graphic is courtesy of Nick Zivanovic of the Calumet Astronomical Society. Nick grants permission for use of this banner on other websites.

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Note for image submissions: The APOD pages are collected annually on a CD-ROM, which is distributed free of charge to educators and the general public. If you would like your image to be considered for an APOD but do not want your image included in this CD-ROM collection, please let us know.

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